The dancing birth of memes

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." 3/30/17

Life After Net: Giving Birth to the Dancing Baby

Before dank memes, Reddit trolls, hacktivism, even before your Top 8, there was Michael Girard and Robert Lussier. Don't recognize those names? You'll recognize their work. All they wanted to do was demo some new animation software—instead, they birthed a diaper-clad monstrosity that crawled out the uncanny valley and into internet ignominy forever.

The Cityscape Savant: Drawing Our World Entirely By Memory

Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old. Though he had difficulty verbally communicating, he loved to draw—and had a remarkable and powerful memory for what he saw. Stephen has turned this into a career as an architectural artist, with the extraordinary ability to recreate cityscapes in incredible detail entirely from memory.

Bread of the Earth: Baking With Lava

Siggi Rafn Hilmarsson is an Icelandic baker who makes bread by burying it underground where it bakes from the natural heat generated by Iceland's volcanic hot springs. Why doesn't he just use a conventional oven? Come on. His method is WAY cooler.

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